Ousmee, sounds like a pretty good setup to me. Bit of a weird combination combination though, i mean youve got a load of very good spec bits (q6600, 4gb ram etc.) which is all good, but then youve got a sound card, DVD burner, wifi etc. but no proper graphics card, a small screen and a small hard dr...

Behhrendt, i think he's talking about i as in the square root of minus one rather than just a variable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_number

*proper newb question* whats a normal range of values for sss?

hey whaat, im good to test this.

i'll try a more wide ranging shot to see if i can see those caustics (theyve got to be hiding somewhere :P) Havign said that, ive got a feelign it might have something to do with the fact that the light material is a blackbody, i ahvent had any luck with them and caustics so far, perhaps im missing ...

The spots are just a single material and im not sure why they dont give any caustics. I mainly chose that angle because i wanted to use this for a desktop background, and that bottom corner is the only place where ive got a good bit of space on my desktop :P As for the subdivision: good idea, i didn...

Hi, if you get in contact with this chap he should be albe ot help you with regards to getting SU running in wine.

I believe it involves quite a lot of fiddling aobut, and as far as i know he hasnt managed to get plugins working in win yet.[/url]

playing about with lights. [/img]